Fun Friday 05: The Best and Worst of Life in Tokyo

Learn Japanese Pod

Alex Brooke

Tokyo, Podcast, Osaka, Japanese, Education, Language Courses, Study, Jlpt, Japan

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🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk to Andy, a great friend of mine whom I have known for over 10 years here in Japan. As we are both long term residents of Tokyo, we wanted to record a podcast outlining the best and the worst of life here in the capital city of Japan. We decided to look at the good, the bad and the ugly to give an honest and balanced discussion of what it is really like to live here. If you are thinking about moving to Tokyo to live or just want to come for a brief visit, we hope there is some useful information for you here. So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

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0:00.0	And by the way, let's put this into perspective.
0:02.0	We're complaining about people being friendly.
0:04.6	Right, yeah right.
0:07.6	Campei.
0:08.6	Campei. Ah.
0:14.0	Ah.
0:15.0	Welcome to
0:18.0	Welcome to learn Japanese Pod with me Alex and
0:25.0	Andy out my good friend Andy thank you very much for appearing on the
0:29.2	podcast it's wonderful to have you here thanks for having me And we're doing the Fun Friday edition. If you
0:34.8	don't know what that is, it's when we stow away our Japanese textbooks and just
0:38.9	talk about Japan, culture, life of the universe and everything pertaining to this wonderful island.
0:46.0	Andy is here with me today to help me talk about Tokyo, more specifically we're talking
0:51.8	about the really good points and the bad points of living in Tokyo.
0:56.0	So this is an attempt to give a somewhat balanced view of Tokyo.
1:01.0	By the way, I think I can give away the ending here. We still live here, meaning that the good points outweigh the bad points.
1:08.0	Indeed. Now, Andy has been a fantastic friend of mine for how long? long have I known you it ten years
1:13.7	it's gotta be ten years yeah so crazy and by the way let me tell you how I met
1:18.2	Andy I met Andy through the Japanese pod that That's right. Right, right? So you can tell the story. How did you meet me?
1:27.6	So let me back up a little bit. So I first came to Japan as a musician at Tokyo Disney.
1:33.7	Yeah, and I met my wife at there who was also a musician over there Japanese woman lovely person named Junco.
1:39.7	And we then went back to the US for a little while and came back here and we were raising our daughter.
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